Chapter 1272.
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CHAP. 1272.— An act authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to ascertain damages resulting to any person who had settled upon the Crow Creek and Winnebago Reservations in South Dakota between February twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and April seventeenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five.October 1, 1890. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Crow Creek and Winnebago reservation, S. Dak.Special agent to examine, etc., claims of losses by settlers.
That the Secretary of the Interior shall designate a special agent of the Interior Department who shall, as soon as practicable, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, make inquiry and report to the Secretary of the Interior upon the claims for losses of all persons who in good faith, between the twenty-seventh day of February, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and the seventeenth day of April, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, settled upon and made claims under the 660FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Chs. 1272, 1273. 1890. land laws of the United States to any of the lands in the Crow Creek and Winnebago Reservations, which by the proclamation of the President of February twenty seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty five, were declared to be opened for settlement. Said agent Examinations.shall have power to cause witnesses to come before him at some point convenient to said reservation, and to administer oaths. He Report.shall report what improvements were made by such persons, and the section or part of section with the township and range upon which said settler made his improvements, the value of the same, the losses sustained by reason of the revocation of the Executive order opening said lands to settlement, giving the particulars of any such losses, and all other facts connected therewith.
Said agent Compensation, etc.Appropriation.shall be entitled to a compensation of ten dollars per day and expenses, and may employ a clerk. There is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of three thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may Report to Congress.be necessary. The Secretary of the Interior shall transmit said report to Congress, with his recommendations thereon. Approved, October 1, 1890. Chapter 1273: granting right of way to the Red Lake and Western Railway and Navigation Company across Red Lake Reservation, in Minnesota, and granting said company the right to take lands for terminal railroad and warehouse purposes.
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